The Santa Fe to Taos Thru-Hike goes from the Santa Fe Plaza all the way to Taos Plaza over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico. It is 132 miles long, spans four counties – Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, Mora, and Taos – and crosses the Santa Fe National Forest, The Pecos Wilderness, and Carson National Forest. The full route has 35,000 feet of cumulative ascent and descent, as both plazas are at 7,000 feet elevation.
The route is over ten years in the making, scouted and refined by Pam Neely beginning around 2014, and then first completed as a thru-hike in 2018. It has been refined several times to optimize safety and access to water. It is still being refined, with a new alternate route to be announced later this year.
Join us at the New Mexico Outdoor Adventures Show:
The thru-hike will have a booth and be giving away free merch. Swing by to get all your questions answered about the thru-hike, to buy a guidebook, get maps, and maybe even buy a few matted photographs of the route.
Pam Neely will be giving a presentation on Saturday morning at 10:30 am about “The 10 Essentials to Bring on Every Hike”. Come find out what SHINN FFIRES stands for… 🔥
Santa Fe to Taos Thru-Hike Finishers
Congratulations to everyone who finished the thru-hike in 2025! If you finished the thru-hike, but:
- Haven’t sent me your trip report and/or
- Would like to be included on this page.
Send me an email (contact@santafetotaos.org) or use the contact page. There’s a free gift in it for you…
Maps and route
See Gaia GPS maps documenting every step of the thru-hike. Or see the route page and individual section pages for details on the route and turn-by-turn directions for the route.
Presentation at the Los Alamos Mountaineers monthly meeting at the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium, Tuesday, October 28th
Huge thanks to the Mountaineers and the Nature Center for this opportunity.
Plaza to Plaza in 52 photographs
Each photograph is from one of the 50 subsections that make up the route.
